The operational costs for:

https://pixelfed.social
https://pixelfed.art
https://pixelfed.org
https://fediverse.info
https://fedidb.org
https://loops.video
https://push.pixelfed.net
https://pubkit.net

Now exceed $4,000 USD per month, we currently get $1,465 from Patreon.

We could use your financial support more than ever while I build a foundation for long term financial support (think official hosting).

Please boost 🙏

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

pixelfed

The original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup

pixelfed
@dansup I just pledged to the Kickstarter! Let's make this happen.
@dansup Not sure if this is something that's already been suggested, but I feel that a giant "DONATE HERE" link in a very visible part of the Pixelfed UI would help tons.

@dansup

It is incredible what is being accomplished here for this amount on money. Public social media is us. Now is our time. We can make this happen. Please donate what you can to Pixelfed. ☝️

@dansup Build a foundation with Mastodon's team ? It would be more powerful an easier for us (users of the fediverse) to participate, donate, etc...

@stanlog @dansup

If there isn't already, there should be some sort of Foundation that all the various fediverse projects can become a part of, to help with funding and legal protection, etc...

@dansup

Where is your patreon link?

@futurebird All necessary info and alternative payment methods: https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Direct link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dansup

@dansup

Support Pixelfed

We're an open source project that is funded by people like you!

Pixelfed

Le message précédent de @dansup concerne l'instance originale de Pixelfed, mais n'oublions pas que nous sommes nous-mêmes sur des instances financées uniquement par les dons, et c'est ce qui fait l'autonomie, notamment politique, du #fediverse. Alors si vous le pouvez, pensez, de temps en temps, à verser quelques euros aux admins de votre instance Mastodon, Peertube ou autre : c'est le prix de la liberté et de l'indépendance !

#autonomie #liberté

@dansup Should those of us who are willing and able to migrate to other instances, to lighten both financial and administrative load?
@dansup what do you prefer? Patreon or Kickstarter?
@dansup Is there a open document that explains cost per item? And maybe get some companies to pitch in to ensure existence for the future?

@Morpurgo @dansup Yeah, if you're going to throw numbers like that out there while requesting donations, backing them up with how and where you're spending it is kind of table stakes?

Are there corporate sponsors? Like DO, for example? Who pays for the difference now? And so forth.

@dansup I wonder how much of this cost is „cloud pricing overhead“

@dansup do you have a nonprofit?

I ask because if you do that means two things:

1: in the US I can donate using pretax dollars which allows me to contribute considerably more
2: I can submit those contributions to be matched 1:1 by my employer through Benevity

@dansup but why then do you want to have an onboarding that leads to one instance? It will raise the server costs even more and you can't meet the monthly costs atm? I don't understand

@dansup So, you have 8 websties to maintain, 4 software projects to write and you've been taking on more stuff recently.

I MUST warn you about the dangers of burnout at this point.

@drq @dansup I guess that’s where a foundation would help: get financial support, hire people (developers) to share the load.

@meduz The foundation won't help, trust me.

@dansup

@dansup I work in cloud infrastructure, let me know how I can also donate spare server capacity
@dansup Even I don't have an account, you'll get a dollar a month through liberapay for the next 3 years. Since Meta blocked Pixelfed, there must be something. I like real competition for commercial platforms.
@dansup facing up to the realities of “free as in speech” not “free as in beer.” Support your local Mastodon instance!
@dansup woah, with those numbers it’s probs worth getting an architect in to suggest cost optimisations

@dansup

"The Pixelfed homepage and "support our project" page both have a banner directing people to a Kickstarter that's almost 200% funded. I wonder if they've cannibalized their own donations by steering people there."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42820292

Pixelfed: The operational costs now exceed $4k USD vs. $1,465 from Patreon | Hacker News

@dansup I have joined #pixelfed only some days ago and love it aleady. I happily just joined your Patreon with a monthly donation! Keep on your good work 🥳
@dansup Is there a chance I can donate via PayPal
@barczek Came to ask the same thing. That's where I have some bux that I can send over. @dansup
@dansup DONE Both in Kickstarter and Patreon!

@dansup

I want to become a supporter. Which of the three support channels do *you* prefer?

@dansup how about ISPs host an instance for their customers as a value add. This is how usenet uses to work and it worked pretty well.
@dansup »Official hosting« would be awesome! If you set up something similar to masto.host, I would be very interested in running my own Pixelfed/Loops instance under my own domains with you.
@dansup y'know, making the Loops app less about federation and pointing everyone to your own servers doesn't help with this :P
@dansup hello! If anybody in your team is in southern Arizona and considering collocation space with transit, please reach out!
@dansup I had never thought that the project was going through so much difficulty. Have you ever thought about presenting the project to a college, or collaborating with a foundation like Blender Org or Ubuntu? Maybe this will help reduce costs
@dansup step one is to stop the bleeding of funds. Disable sign ups.
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@dansup was looking for the zap button to send your one sats - then reliased this is not #Nostr